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Residents are being invited to look at building progress at Broadmoor Hospital Credit: ITV Meridian

After ten months of building work and more than one thousand concrete panels, a new hospital in Berkshire is inviting residents to take a look at its progress. Details surrounding the new Broadmoor Hospital site are being shared through a number of spring information days in the community.

"We're well into our first year of construction, so passers-by can actually see the buildings beginning to take shape. It's amazing how quickly the new hospital is going up, especially when you consider the significant impact it will have on our patients and services, and the vast improvements it will bring in mental health treatment and care for many, many years to come. The hospital also plays an important role in the local community, so it's essential that we continue to let people know what's going on and remind them just how much this redevelopment is needed."

Prison officers at Broadmoor are set to go on strike in a bitter dispute with the Government over health workers' pay.

Members of the Prison Officers Association will walk out of the high security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire between 7am and 11am this morning.

The dispute centres on the Government's controversial decision not to accept a recommended 1% wage increase for all NHS staff. The Prison Officers Association say a "high proportion" of its 1,300 members involved in the dispute will not receive a pay rise this year.

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Its Victorian walls are almost as well known as the criminals its housed - but after 150 years, Berkshire's Broadmoor Hospital has been deemed unfit for purpose. Almost 250 million pounds is being spent to build a modern facility next to the original site in Crowthorne. People living close to the high-security hospital have now been given the opportunity to see the redevelopment plans. Kate Bunkall reports.

The late TV presenter Jimmy Savile was a "horrific, prolific sex offender" who abused his fame and power to get away with his crimes "for so long", the NSPCC has said.

The NSPCC's Director of Child Protection Advice and Support, Peter Watt, spoke to Good Morning Britain after the children's charity released figures showing Savile had abused children "as young as two", with at least 500 of his victims coming forward.

The NSPCC believe that Jimmy Savile could be the most prolific child abuser that they have ever discovered in the United Kingdom.

Peter Watt, the NSPCC's director of child protection, said: "There's no doubt that Savile is one of the most, if not the most, prolific sex offender that we at the NSPCC have ever come across.

What you have is somebody who at his most prolific lost no opportunity to identify vulnerable victims and abuse them."

The joint BBC investigation between Panorama and The World At One, which airs today on BBC One and BBC Radio 4, asks how the DJ got so close to the heart of Britain's establishment and why in 1972 the BBC failed to take effective action that might have saved young people from abuse.

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The NSPCC report also claims that Saville's offending in Broadmoor Hospital is higher than previously thought, with Thames Valley Police having received at least 16 reports of abuse by him inside the secure hospital.

The report also claims that senior civil servants wrongly referred to the Top Of The Pops presenter as "doctor" - completely unaware of the trauma he was inflicting on some children behind closed hospital doors.

Sir Jimmy Savile at the unveiling of a contemporary sculpture in 2005. Credit: Matthew Fearn/PA Archive

At least 500 children, some as young as two years old, were abused by disgraced television personality Jimmy Saville during his vile reign as one of the UK's most prolific sex offenders, new research shows.

A study carried out by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, commissioned for the BBC's Panorama programme, reveals secret confidential documents examining the scope of Savile's offending and his unprecedented access to Broadmoor hospital, where some of the abuse happened.